L'écriture de Brian Conn explore des thèmes qui sondent l'expérience humaine et les relations. Son style est souvent décrit comme perspicace et introspectif, examinant des couches plus profondes d'émotions et de pensées. L'auteur cherche à saisir les complexités de la psyché humaine et sa place dans le monde. Ses œuvres invitent les lecteurs à réfléchir sur leur propre vie et le monde qui les entoure.
Adorno's philosophy, a significant influence in post-war thought, is made accessible through Brian O'Connor's clear and thorough introduction. The book serves as an essential resource for newcomers, offering insights into Adorno's contributions to philosophy, sociology, and literature, making it ideal for students in these fields.
This book analyzes Adorno's "pure" philosophy, illustrating how it justifies the rationality essential to critical theory. It explores the interplay between philosophical thought and critical analysis, shedding light on Adorno's contributions to understanding rationality within a critical framework.
The relationship between a person with a question and a source of information is complex. This title emphasizes methods of modeling and constructing appropriate representations of such questions and documents. It offers focal points for discussion about system design and refinement of existing systems.
A biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach follows his life in football, from watching Naval Academy games with his father to his success as head coach of the New England Patriots.
Idleness is engagingly written, stimulating, and illuminating. Brian O'Connor handles his material deftly, taking the reader to the heart of the issues.-- Michael Rosen, author of Dignity: Its History and Meaning
Liam Dee's world is turned upside down when a young foreign groom is murdered at Bailey McFarlane's stables on the Curragh. Liam, a champion steeplechase jockey, is initially both witness and suspect. However, shrewd police detective Diarmuid Yeats takes a gamble on his innocence and enlists his help in the hunt for the killer. This nightmare experience exacerbates the tensions in Liam's life. He has been falling out of love with his job, his joy in racing relentlessly worn away by the struggle to keep the weight down on his six-foot frame. Is it time to quit? But McFarlane's stables houses the brilliant Patrician, a potential Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, and Liam wants to be the jockey to get him first past the finish post in the race that matters most. With emotions at pressure point, Liam falls in love with the exotic blonde Ukrainian stable girl, Lara, leaving him in an even more vulnerable position than before. Then the killer strikes again and the race to the finish post is replaced by a race for survival . . . and there is no second place.
Liam Dee's world is turned upside down when a young foreign groom is murdered at Bailey McFarlane's stables on the Curragh. Liam, a champion steeplechase jockey, is initially both witness and suspect. However, shrewd police detective Diarmuid Yeats takes a gamble on his innocence and enlists his help in the hunt for the killer. This nightmare experience exacerbates the tensions in Liam's life. He has been falling out of love with his job, his joy in racing relentlessly worn away by the struggle to keep the weight down on his six-foot frame. Is it time to quit? But McFarlane's stables houses the brilliant Patrician, a potential Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, and Liam wants to be the jockey to get him first past the finish post in the race that matters most. With emotions at pressure point, Liam falls in love with the exotic blonde Ukrainian stable girl, Lara, leaving him in an even more vulnerable position than before. Then the killer strikes again and the race to the finish post is replaced by a race for survival . . . and there is no second place.
Lorcan Donovan is an ex-amateur rider in charge of the bloodstock empire of the billionaire American, Jake Weinberger. But behind the glamour of big-money horse deals and the world's great races, all is not as it seems.
It is 1919, and as the First World War draws to an end, 15-year-old Emily Parish is poised to follow her mother into service. Her father, a gamekeeper on the Melham Estate, has become a victim of the war, like many others, lost in the fields of France. A new young teacher, Kitty Bell, arrives at Melham village school and enters Emily for her scholarship to Brammerton High School against her mother's wishes and with the aid of Lady Louise Grayson, a young widow at Farnwell Hall, uncovers the mystery of Emily's parentage and finds the love that has previously eluded her. Emily's mother, Annie Parish, is offered the position of cook in the newly renovated Farnwell Hall, the old seat of the Graysons, now occupied by Vivienne Stratton-Smith, Louise's sister-in-law, an inveterate fighter for women's rights and her husband, a liberal MP. Illustrated by Suzanne Conn
Ein Mädchen begleitet ihren Vater, einen Holzfäller, in den Wald, wo sie Beeren und Pilze sammelt. Plötzlich entdeckt sie ein geheimnisvolles Licht zwischen zwei alten Eichen, das sie fasziniert. Eine Stimme fordert sie auf, dem Licht näher zu kommen und es zu durchschreiten.